Bestselling British-American writer Barbara Taylor Bradford, whose debut novel "A Woman of Substance" turned her into an overnight success and sold over 30 million copies, has died aged 91, a spokeswoman said on Monday.

Barbara Taylor Bradford, the bestselling author whose novel 'A Woman of Substance' was adapted into a Channel 4 miniseries, has died. She was 91.

Barbara Taylor Bradford, a British journalist who became a publishing sensation in her 40s with the saga “A Woman of Substance” and wrote more than a dozen other novels that sold tens of millions of copies,